150 Luera Mtns

Open Gate Property 150 (Luera Mountains, NM)

Open Gate is a program that leases private lands to improve public access for hunting, fishing, and trapping. Open Gate leases are funded exclusively by hunters, anglers, and trappers through the purchase of the Habitat Management & Access Validation: HMAV.

Directions: Using this Google Map you may create your own custom driving directions to the property. The directions provided by Google are for planning purposes only. Travel conditions may vary, please plan accordingly.

Information & Habitat: The Luera Mountains contain more than 75,000 acres of State Trust Land consisting of open grasslands, woodlands, and forests with game species including elk, deer, black bear, cougar, and wild turkey. Through its Open Gate program the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish partnered with the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation in 2014 to lease a long term road easement from the New Mexico State Land Office into the Luera Mountains. This 35 year right-of-way agreement provides the only public access for hunting, trapping, and other permitted outdoor recreation into the southern portion of New Mexico State Trust Lands of the Luera Mountains. Large-scale wildlife habitat and watershed projects are also currently underway to help restore and improve thousands of acres across this mountain range.

Purpose: The purpose of this lease is to provide improved, long term road access for properly-licensed hunters, trappers, and anglers onto State Trust Lands in the Luera Mountains.

Camping is allowed on State Trust Land only in posted, designated areas or with written permission from the surface lessee. For additional information, contact the State Land Office at: (505) 827-5842.

Harass or injure livestock or wildlife or damage private property, such as dwellings or range improvements.

Use a Private-land Only Deer License to hunt on state land, even if the state land is leased by a landowner whose property you have permission to hunt.

Pack it in, pack it out! Trash containers, restrooms and drinking water are not available.

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Our Mission

To conserve, regulate, propagate and protect the wildlife and fish within the state of New Mexico using a flexible management system that ensures sustainable use for public food supply, recreation and safety; and to provide for off-highway motor vehicle recreation... (Read more...)